Preface to Seventh Revised and Enlarged Edition

Preface to First (SI) Edition

Acknowledgements

Nomenclature

1. Introduction

2. General Heat Conduction Equation

3. One-Dimensional Steady-State Heat Conduction Without Heat Generation

4. One-Dimensional Steady-State Heat Conduction With Heat Generation

5. Heat Transfer from Extended Surfaces

6. Two- and Three-Dimensional Steady-State Heat Conduction

7. Unsteady State (Transient) Heat Conduction

8. Convection and Fluid Flow Processes

9. Dimensional Analysis

10. External and Internal Laminar Flow Forced Convective Heat Transfer

11. External and Internal Turbulent Flow Forced Convective Heat Transfer

12. Empirical Correlations for Forced Convective Heat Transfer

13. Free Convection

14. Boiling and Condensation (Two-phase Flow Heat Transfer)

15. Special Convective Heat Transfer Processes

16. Heat Exchangers

17. Thermal Radiation Phenomena

18. Radiation Exchange between Surfaces

19. Mass Transfer

20. Appendices

•   Appendix A
•   Appendix B
•   Appendix C
•   Appendix D
•   Appendix E

21. References

22. Index 

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